Element View Toggling

1. A computer implemented method comprising: providing a user with an option in a web-page design application to toggle a current style of a selected element to change a design time view of said selected element, wherein said selected element is selected from one or more elements making up content of a web page under design; changing the design time view of said selected element in response to the user exercising said option, wherein the design time view of said selected element changes to display content of said selected element that was hidden prior to the user exercising said option; and restoring said current style to said selected element in response to the user exercising said option to toggle back to said current style.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said changing said design time view of said element includes changing one or more styles in a currently-applied design time style sheet.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said currently-applied design time style sheet is a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)-type style sheet.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein said currently-applied design time style sheet is an internal representation in memory of portions of one or more user-specified design time style sheets.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said element is selected from the group consisting of: a text object; an image object; a link object; and a sound object.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said element is described as a CSS overflow object.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said element is described as: a “display:none” object; or a “visibility:hidden” object.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein providing said user with an option to toggle a current style includes presenting a menu to said user in response to a right mouse click.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein providing said user with an option to toggle a current style includes accepting a double mouse click as a request to exercise said option.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in response to the user exercising said option, the design time view of said selected element changes to display all content of said selected element.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in response to the user exercising said option, the design time view of said selected element changes to allow editing of content that was hidden prior to the user exercising said option.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in response to the user exercising said option, the design time view of said selected element changes to obscure display of another of the one or more elements making up content of the web page under design.

13. A computer implemented method comprising: receiving input from a user interacting with a user interface in a web page creation program, wherein said input specifies a design time view change for an object selected from a plurality of web page objects; automatically editing a currently applied design time style sheet according to the design time view change; rendering a changed design time view of the object according to the edited, currently applied design time style sheet, wherein the design time view of the object changes to display content of the object that was hidden.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein said input from said user specifies one of three alternate views.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein said interaction with said user interface includes said user selecting a design view change option provided on a menu on a graphical user interface.

16. The method of claim 13 further comprising refreshing the design time view of the object to display the object in an original or default view.

17. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon, comprising: code for receiving input from a user specifying a design time view change for one object selected by said user from a plurality of objects making up a web page under design; code for automatically changing an internal design time style sheet according to said specified design time view change; code for rendering a design time view of said one object according to said changed internal design time style sheet, wherein the design time view of said one object changes to display content of said one object that was hidden; code for receiving additional input from the user specifying change to another design time view for said one object; and code for refreshing said design time view of said one object to display said one object in said another design time view.

18. The computer program product of claim 17 further comprising code for providing extensibility to said user to define an interface that receives said input from said user.

19. The computer program product of claim 17 , further comprising code for providing a code view to said user.

20. The computer program product of claim 17 further comprising: code for applying one or more user-defined design time style sheets to said design time view; and code for using portions of said one or more user-defined design time style sheets to create said internal design time style sheet.